The snarl of wires, cables, and filaments inside a Thing-O-Matic is a wonder to behold. A few cable clamps can tidy it up and reduce the chance that a loose wire will snag on a moving stage.
It’s probably a Good Idea to keep the thermocouple cable out of the bundle with the stepper cable, but, other than that, a few clamps inside the body work fine:
There’s another clamp inside the right-front corner that corrals the ABP cabling.
Atop the body, a clamp keeps the Z axis cable and Extruder motor wires under control. This was before I added Powerpoles and the Safety Lamp into the DC motor cable.
A little clamp immobilizes the thermocouple cable near the Thermal Core. The fat red wire across the top is the Thermal Core static drain and ground connection.
These clamps have an adhesive backing, which means you don’t have to drill holes and lose screws under the bench, and it’s not the end of the world should you stick one in the wrong spot.
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2 responses to “Thing-O-Matic: Cable Clampage”
Printable versions on Thingiverse? ;-)
Perhaps more interesting would be an OpenSCAD parametric version for the hyperorganized.
That’s a chicken-and-egger: must print clamps to tidy cables to print clamps to …
Actually, I have an even bigger loop in progress: I’m machining a trio of aluminum built plates for dimensionally stable prints, then I can print all the bits for a geared stepper extruder (parametric tensioner plus Coloso-gears), then I can print useful stuff…
Why is it the first few dozen things you print are all printer parts? That’s the real chicken-and-egg story!